Many thanks Ali for your timely response, do you think there is need
for harmonizing of regulations or policies that touch on wayleaves
nationally considering the fact that cable  and powerlines can be
considered as critical National infrastructure?

Regards

On 6/28/16, Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> wrote:

Barrack and all

The Universal Service Access Fund is a commendable initiative but too often

there hasn't been much information on the impact the critical resource is

having. My suggestion would be to have an interactive real time map showing

its impact and why certain regions are chosen to receive its largess and not

others. This should be linked with Infrastructure sharing and last mile

strategies to provide connectivity from the NOFBI.

WayLeaves in my humble opinion are a major stumbling block to achieving

Universal Access. Some counties think that this is a major income earner. We

need to dissuade them from this myopic thinking. There has to be robust

engagement with counties to ensure that ISPs and Telcos are not held to

ransom by short term county revenue hunting at the expense of spreading

ubiquitous broadband connectivity. This is so critical that a clear strategy

paper needs to be put together by all stakeholders to guarantee its

implementation.

What are the roadblocks that hinder us from achieving universal broadband

connectivity?

Ali Hussein

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On 28 Jun 2016, at 7:43 AM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet

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Listers,

We inadvertently skipped the day 4 discussion since it was to be done

over the weekend (Saturday 25 June 2016). As such we will back track

so that we can tackle the topics which are very important.

Today we focus on the following topics

*Universal Access (Infrastructure)

*Universal Service (PWD)

*Affordable Internet broadband Services

*Affordable User Devices

*Public e-Literacy

The Background

Universal service principles are based on the fact that all citizens

are entitled to basic communication rights.  In other words, the

government is obliged to ensure that communication signals reach all

Kenyans, irrespective of their income levels, remote localities, lack

of (e)literacy and/or disabilities (e.g. the blind/deaf/etc).

There was recent access-gap study commissioned by the regulator which

confirmed that a large number of Kenyan localities are underserved

http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/walubengo/-/2274560/3155384/-/l3vdw8z/-/index.html.

How can we change the situation?

Thank you

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